I've moved this blog to GitLab Pages. You can continue to read new posts there, as well access all the old posts from previous hosts.
The main reason that I have done this is because I'm now employed at GitLab, so it makes sense to run my web site out of that service.
This GitHub Pages repository will remain online, served under the GH Pages domain https://sinewalker.github.io
Follow me at the same places!
After some hacking of my dotfiles and python settings, I lost my nikola virtual environment (I think it broke after a brew update or something. The hacking's only partly recorded in the issues on GitHub).
But that's no biggie, just make a new one and re-install, right? Well, not quite. The re-install gives you the latest Nikola (great!) and that means I have to review and update my conf.py (okay...) and figure out runtime errors like this:
[src:?][mjl@milo:~/hax/net/blog/milosophical.me] [07:27](nikola)$ nikola version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/bin/nikola", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/__main__.py", line 171, in main _ = DN.run(oargs) File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/__main__.py", line 339, in run self.nikola.init_plugins() File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/nikola.py", line 1077, in init_plugins self._activate_plugins_of_category("SignalHandler") File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/nikola.py", line 1233, in _activate_plugins_of_category plugin_info.plugin_object.set_site(self) File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/plugins/misc/taxonomies_classifier.py", line 328, in set_site self._register_path_handlers(taxonomy) File "/Users/mjl/lib/nikola/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikola/plugins/misc/taxonomies_classifier.py", line 316, in _register_path_handlers doc = taxonomy.path_handler_docstrings[name] KeyError: 'page_index_folder_index'
(well, pooh).
I decided a while back that I wasn't going to meta-blog (otherwise most of my posts would be about blogging!), but I think in this case, Rule 4 will come to the rescue. Anyway at least you know this story has a happy ending, or else I wouldn't be able to add this new_post!
Tonight I thought that I'd sit down at my home server, Tesla, and do a bit of blogging. This server's recently been rebuilt after a bad run-in with a hard-drive problem and I had not got around to putting my blog onto it. Instead I was blogging with work's laptop.
After spending an hour cloning and installing my blog repositories and the necessary software through trial-and-error, I thought it best to write down what is necessary to bootstrap my blogging environment, and save myself some trouble in the future.
Ideally I will make a script to get most of this going soon … but in the meantime, you are treated to a meta-blog.